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I met Lindsay Clancy supporters who also suffered serious trauma — but it can’t lessen the brutality of her killings

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When I drove to Plymouth Superior Court on Thursday morning to speak with supporters of Lindsay Clancy, I expected to meet a bunch of ghouls.

But it quickly became clear that the people dressed in bright pink outside the courthouse, supporting the triple child killer have their own psychological struggles. They are using Clancy to symbolize of a larger critique of our mental health system.

“I think she’s a victim of a failed medical system, and I think women’s mental health isn’t taken seriously enough,” 41-year-old Melissa Merrill said. “I’ve been a mom where you don’t want to say how you feel because of the stigma… ‘If I say I feel this way, what if my kid gets taken away?’”

To them, Clancy was a woman prescribed too many drugs and not taken seriously enough when she said her postpartum mental health was deteriorating. They believe she’s only in her current position because doctors and the medical industrial complex fail to take women seriously.

But it seems to me there are a million better ways to raise awareness for postpartum mental health struggles than standing outside a courthouse in support of a woman who admits killing her own toddlers.

“I felt like I needed to be here,” Sarah Miller, a 38-year-old mother, told me. She had driven 17 hours from Indiana and slept in her car to be outside the courtroom as the jury broke for deliberation on Thursday.

Miller told me she had........

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